Sunday, 26 August 2012

Kaggle Prospect - Harvard Business Review

I used the subject lines for all the articles and all the years and mapped the articles into one of the following 18 categories

Business Ethics

Business Management

Crisis

Emerging Markets

Financial Performance

Health Care

Information Technology

Labor

Leadership

Management Systems

Marketing Strategy

Regulation

Social Media

Stock Market

Strategic Planning

Supply Chain

United States & World

Women & Management

Changes in popularity of these topics were visualized using the googleVis package for R. This visualization is available here (I could not figure out how to upload it on Kaggle).

Observations:

The average number of pages per article has gone down steadily since the 1950s falling to below 5 pages per article in for the first time in 1981 and then staying pretty much below that mark. Could this partly be attributed to the internet revolution?

Recent trending topics are related to Emerging Markets & China, and Social Media.

Some evergreen topics in HBR include - Business Management, Employees/Workforce, Labor, Marketing Strategy, and Strategic Planning.

The lengthiest articles are on issues concerning United States & the World, Regulation and Management Systems